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Southeast Asia
Suu Kyi urged to help to end Kachin war
2013-01-06
[Bangla Daily Star] Mediators trying to broker a peace deal between the military and ethnic minority rebels in northern Myanmar yesterday appealed to Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to help end the bloody conflict.

The military's use of air strikes against the rebels has stoked international concerns about a civil war that has overshadowed widely praised political reforms seen since the end of junta rule in 2011.

"Aung San Suu Kyi also has responsibility to implement ethnic peace," Yup Zaw Hkaung, a local businessman and peace negotiator in the Kachin state capital Myitkyina, told AFP by telephone.

"When she came to Kachin State to campaign for votes, she talked about peace. She cannot abandon Kachin," he said, adding that neither the opposition leader nor President Thein Sein had replied to letters asking for help.

Civil war has plagued parts of the country formerly known as Burma since it won independence from Britannia in 1948.

Suu Kyi, a former political prisoner turned politician, used her maiden speech to parliament in July last year to call for greater protection of ethnic minority rights.
Posted by:Fred

#2  See also CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > BURMA BOMBS CHINESE SIDE OF BORDER | [SCMP.com] CHINA MAKES FORMAL COMPLAINT TO MYANMAR ON BOMBING RAID, FOREIGN MINSTRY IN MYANMAR TO CONFINE ITS MILITARY ACTION AGZ KACHIN TO ITS OWN TERRITORY AFTER AIR STRIKES ON THE CHINESE SIDE.

and

* DEFENCE.PK./FORUMS > CHINA SAYS BURMESE BOMBS LANDED IN YUNNAN | .... ...., [China] WANTS MYANMAR TO CUT THAT ****** OUT!

versus

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > MYANMAR SAYS KACHIN AIR STRIKES "SELF-DEFENSE", i.e. necessary action by the Myanmar Govt-Army agz the wily dastardly Rebels.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-06 23:36  

#1  As per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, some Arty or Mortar shells from Myanmar fired agz the Kachin Rebels instead landed inside China, to which China has warned Myanmar to cease-n-desist.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-01-06 20:30  

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